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Eirini Zormpa
Experience
PhD Candidate
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, NL
2016–2020
In my PhD, I research what people remember from conversations and how that changes as a result of speaking as opposed to listening. My research uses in-person and online behavioural experiments as well as eye-tracking methods.
Graduate Research Assistant
Reading University
Reading, UK
2016
I worked on two projects, one on prospective memory and one on bilingualism. My responsibilities included recruiting and testing participants using EEG and transcribing narratives of Greek-English bilingual children.
Teacher of English
Mingiani-Prevyzi Foreign Language School
Serres, GR
2013-2014
I taught English to primary school children, aged 8 to 12. My responsibilities included developing the curriculum, delivering the classes, creating and grading tests, and communicating with the parents.
Education
University of Reading
MSc in Language Sciences
Reading, UK
2014–2015
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
BA in English Language and Literature
Thessaloniki, GR
2009–2013
Selected Event Organising Experience
Open Science Community Nijmegen
Co-founded community advocating for open science in Nijmegen and organised events, e.g. a Lightning Talks event and a ReproducibiliTea journal club. Content creator for the website and newsletter.
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2018–2020
R-Ladies Nijmegen chapter
Co-founded local R-Ladies chapter with 300+ members, promoting gender diversity in the R community. I was involved in organising and advertising our workshops on, e.g., data visualisation and literate programming.
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2018–2020
Pint of Science NL
Organiser for 3-day science communication event bringing a range of scientific topics like astrophysics and neuroscience into Nijmegen pubs.
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2018–2020
Friday Lunch Talks
Organiser for fortnightly science communication talks at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. My responsibilities included inviting speakers, designing advertising materials, and chairing the sessions.
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2018–2019
Awards & Honours
- Donders Institute
- Donders Posters Theme 1 winner (2017)
- University of Reading
- Achieving Excellence Bursary Award (2014)
Supervision
- Wenwen Jin
- Intern at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Reviewer
- Journal of Open Source Software
- Frontiers in Psychology
Blog Posts
- Why mycode.R_final.v2_usethisone is not helping your workflow. Software Sustainability Institute, Speed blog written during the Collaborations Workshop 2020.
Volunteering
- Kletskoppen festival
- Drongo Language Festival
Open Access Ambassador Conference
Organiser for 2-day international conference on Open Access in Berlin with speakers from academia, the public sector and industry.
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Dec 2019
Selected Teaching Experience
Reproducible analyses in R
Workshop presented at MPI Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, NL
Jun 2020
Developed a workshop for psycholinguists showing how to use R projects, GitHub, and Binder for reproducible analytical environments.
Key Practices for the Language Scientist
IMPRS Language Sciences
Nijmegen, NL
2020
Co-instructor with Julia Egger on a 6-week course teaching openness on all parts of the research cycle, from preregistration to publishing Open Access.
Peer-reviewed Publications
Slow naming of pictures facilitates memory for their names
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26. doi:10.3758/s13423-019-01620-x
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2019
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
The production effect and the generation effect improve memory in picture naming
Memory 27. doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1510966
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2019
Eirini Zormpa, Laurel E. Brehm, Renske S. Hoedemaker, & Antje S. Meyer
Selected Posters and Presentations
Communicative intentions influence memory for conversations
Poster presented at the 26th AMLaP conference.
Potsdam, DE (online)
Sep 2020
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
The power of open science communities
Unconference session chaired at the 4th SIPS Meeting.
Rotterdam, NL
Jul 2019
Stephan Heunis, Loek Brinkman, Antonio Schettino, Eirini Zormpa, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Olmo van der Akker